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Shadow!<\/b><\/p>\n
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Nubi & Noodle<\/b><\/p>\n
My sister Amy and her husband Jim have three dogs – Shadow, Noodle, and Nubi. Shadow is about 12 years old, a cute little black Pomeranian (IS he a pomeranian? I know it starts with a “P.”). he\u2019s very friendly and loveable and good. Noodle and Nubi are a beagle and an Italian greyhound, both young and energetic and not so bright. Good-natured, but they\u2019d chew the house down if left to their own devices. i previously wrote about them destroying anything and everything in their paths.<\/p>\n
Before Noodle and Nubi, there was Shadow and Beleu, a black lab (a lab? are you sure? i think so), who was named after the bear in Jungle Book. Beleu passed away a few years ago, and then it was just Shadow, who was lonely without Beleu. Hence the arrival of Noodle and Nubi. But the two younger dogs are slightly insane, as i\u2019ve mentioned, and they spend lots of time trying (very good-naturedly, of course) trying to kill each other. Shadow steers clear, spending his time being petted and loved and spoiled by amy and jim. <\/p>\n
When i\u2019ve dog-sitted (dog-sat?) for them, i\u2019ve managed to attend to keeping the animals accounted for (there are also a few cats). my strategy was to ply all animals with many treats.<\/p>\n
anyway, on sunday jim called. shadow was MISSING. he\u2019d dug a hole under the fence and disappeared. he\u2019d been gone two hours. Everybody started combing the neighborhoods, looking for him. No Shadow. things looked bleak. i\u2019d spent the day making a bunch of mexican food; the family was going to assemble at mom-n-dad\u2019s, and we were going to eat, then play a new game. The plans weren\u2019t called off, but amy and jim didn\u2019t come over, so there was a definite pall over the party. <\/p>\n
Monday, amy called. she\u2019d seen an animal control truck near her house, and she followed it. it was roaring around town, and sped into the sherwood subdivision. amy was finally able to flag it down, and asked if they\u2019d picked up Shadow. Nope, but they had a report of a little black dog in the neighborhood, running loose. amy knew, IT MUST BE SHADOW! she called me, she called dad, and soon were were out in our cars, creeping around Sherwood, yelling SHADOW! SHADOW! at the top of our lungs. every once in a while i\u2019d see amy up ahead of me, turning a corner. <\/p>\n
i couldn\u2019t find shadow. i stopped a woman out walking a dog, and she hadn\u2019t seen him, but she wanted a card so she could call me if she did. as i dug around in my purse, my phone rang. THEY FOUND SHADOW! i thanked the woman.<\/p>\n
But Shadow wasn\u2019t in sherwood after all. it would have been quite a hike if he\u2019d been there, and he\u2019d have had to cross too many busy streets. jim had called the Animal Protective League, who called him back an hour later – a woman living right down the block had found him, probably very soon after he\u2019d made his escape.<\/p>\n
he was running around in a church parking lot (like me, he gets confused at church), and she brought him home and put him on a leash in the back yard, hoping somebody would claim him. meanwhile, the family was combing outlying areas.<\/p>\n
shadow BROKE FREE from the yard, because he is a sweet but very, very stubborn little fellow, and the woman had to chase him down the block to retrieve him. she must have taken him inside at that point. she had a dog of her own, and a few cats, and all the animals got along fine.<\/p>\n
shadow slept in her bed with her.<\/p>\n
and on monday morning, he was returned safe and sound. i pulled into amy and jim\u2019s house just as they\u2019d picked him up, and they all scampered down the street towards home. it was a mighty fine start to the week. <\/p>\n
i guess the lesson is that that which you seek is probably in your own back yard. or at least in a neighbor\u2019s back yard.<\/p>\n
here\u2019s my Zen quote for the day: “There is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.” i can\u2019t be a Buddhist monk after all, because i\u2019d have to shave my head and they don\u2019t allow women anyway and i\u2019d have to go to tibet or somewhere. but that\u2019s not going to stop me from becoming PLENTY enlightened, let me tell you.<\/p>\n
ok then. <\/p>\n
grace becoming more enlightened by the minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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